Still Alice
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In Memoriam: Richard Glatzer and Grief
When I first I met Richard Glatzer, it seems all we talked about was grief. It was the early 90’s and grief was part and parcel to far too many dinner conversations back then. But Richard wanted to do something more than just talk about grief; he wanted to make a movie about it. We had met at Sundance where he had given me a script he wrote and asked me to play the lead. As I started reading Grief, I was immediately impressed by how funny, touching, and wise it was — hardly the somber meditation on death the title implied. Halfway through, there was […]
by Craig Chester on Mar 13, 2015 -
In the Family Way: Still Alice
To watch Julianne Moore portray a 49-year-old woman diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s might be as close as one can get to understanding the disease and its effects on patient and family without having oneself received a positive diagnosis. Make no mistake, though: Still Alice is no downer. It is a closely observed and brilliantly performed story of struggle and — how can I write this out without appearing trite? — love. Director-driven it is not. Yes, it is nicely shot (by Olivier Assayas’s frequent DP Denis Lenoir) and suitably edited. Filmmakers Richard Glatzer (whose battle with ALS since 2011 became […]
by Howard Feinstein on Dec 5, 2014 -
Dispatches from Toronto & Camden
Toronto Film Festival 2014 By Scott Macaulay Early in Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s resolutely unsentimental Still Alice, the eponymous Columbia University linguistics professor (Julianne Moore) visits a neurologist to discuss the memory issues she’s been having. “I’m going to tell you a name and address, and I want you to remember it,” he says. “John Black, 42 Washington Street, Hoboken.” After a few basic cognitive tests, he asks Moore to repeat the address. She stumbles, apologizes; she just got distracted. The doctor smiles and nods. Moore is brilliant in this scene, as she is throughout the film capturing, Kübler-Ross- […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 20, 2014 -
Five Questions for Still Alice Writer/Directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
In Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova’s novel, Julianne Moore plays a Columbia University linguistics professor with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, a diagnosis that threatens to erode her relationship with her family as well as the city she has long called her home. With a supporting cast including Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, Still Alice promises a realistic depiction of the disease by one of America’s finest actresses, and it’s a return to character-based human dramas by the directorial duo of Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, whose films include The Last of Robin Hood, the Sundance Grand Prize-winning Quinceañera […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 8, 2014
